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White Ivy

White Ivy
  • Author(s): Susie Yang
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ivy Lin was a thief. But you’d never know it to look at her… Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove,...

Who is Rich?

Who is Rich?
  • Author(s): Matthew Klam
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Every summer, a once-sort-of-famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where drum circles happen on...

Why Didn’t You Tell Me?

Why Didn’t You Tell Me?
  • Author(s): Carmen Rita Wong
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a...

Wild and Distant Seas

Wild and Distant Seas
  • Author(s): Tara Karr Roberts
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1849

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures. Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to...

Wilder Girls

Wilder Girls
  • Author(s): Rory Power
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began...

Winter at the Door

Winter at the Door
  • Author(s): Sarah Graves
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 21st century

Perfect for fans of Jenny Milchman, Linda Castillo, and Lisa Gardner—the first book in a suspenseful new crime thriller series featuring the tough but haunted police chief Lizzie Snow, a big-city cop with a mission, taking on a small...

Witness

Witness
  • Author(s): Caroline Mitchell
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal. It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to...

Writers & Lovers

Writers & Lovers
  • Author(s): Lily King
  • Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the...

You Are Fatally Invited

You Are Fatally Invited
  • Author(s): Ande Pliego
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six thriller authors. One writing retreat. You’d die to be on the guest list . . . The Host Legendary mystery author J. R. Alastor’s books are sold all over the world, but no one knows his real name....

Young Jane Young

Young Jane Young
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Zevin
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with...

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